Friday, December 7, 2012

Spartan
multi clipboard is THE number one upgrade to the Windows operating system.

Why
a multi clipboard?

Simple. A multiple
item clipboard doesn't just mean that you can copy more than once before you
paste!

It means that every single piece of useful information that appears on your
screen can be saved for future reference simply by copying it.

Why
Spartan ? Are there not other multi clipboards?

There are lots of
other multi clipboards but they all suffer from various drawbacks. Some only
copy text. Some copy graphics but cannot paste them into Outlook or Windows
mail. Some cannot copy combined text and graphics as in a a clip from MS Word.
Worst of all, most other clipboards stop at just saving the information. What
is the point of saving a web page address if you cannot click on it to visit
the page. With Spartan, you can visit copied web sites. You can start email
to copied email addresses. You can open copied files and folders. If you have
a modem, you can even dial copied phone numbers.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Norman Williams votes in the Nov. 6 election. He received a life sentence under California's three-strikes law for a series of petty thefts and burglaries but was released in 2009. Photo by Michael Romano.

It was slain by a couple of professors, their students, and a district attorney who wanted reform.

In last week’s election, California voters made a decision that was
at once historic and obvious: They reformed the state’s infamously harsh
three-strikes law. Proposition 36, the ballot measure that passed with
an amazing 69 percent of the vote, changed the state’s three-strikes law
so that offenders who have committed no serious and violent crime will
no longer go to prison for life. The vote was historic because when
voters see crime measures on the ballot, they almost always pull the
lever in favor of retribution, not mercy. And yet this time the result
was also a no-brainer: The state was locking up petty thieves and
shoplifters for life, and given the chance to stop this, the voters
resoundingly did.

The original three-strikes ballot measure passed in California in
1994, following the terrible murder-kidnapping of 12-year-old Polly
Klaas, who was snatched from her own slumber party. The killer turned
out to be a criminal with a violent past who was out on parole. That was
all voters needed to hear to pass a measure that said it would keep
“career criminals who rape women, molest children and commit murder
behind bars where they belong.”

But as the Los Angeles Times pointed out in an editorial
this week, it’s not clear that Californians intended to go beyond the
rapists, murderers, and molesters to permanently lock up offenders like Norman Williams, whom I wrote about for the New York Times Magazine
two years ago. Williams’ third strike was a conviction for petty theft
in 1997: He stole the floor jack of a tow truck when he was homeless and
addicted to drugs. His earlier crimes also weren’t the work of a
hardened and dangerous career criminal: In 1982, he burglarized an empty
apartment while it was being fumigated. After he was robbed at gunpoint
on the way out, he helped the police find the stuff he’d stolen. In
1992, he tried to steal tools from an art studio. When the owner
confronted him, he dropped everything and ran. READ MORE